Backgrounders, memos and other information about key public lands issues.
Wilderness Society resources
About Our Public Lands and Wilderness
- Visit www.wilderness.org
Efforts to Privatize Our Public Lands
- Extremists in Congress and state legislatures seek sell off of national land
- Experts debunk four myths about public lands
- Selling Idaho’s land to the highest bidder – Wilderness Society report
We Need Modern Energy Policy for Public Lands
Too Wild to Drill report focuses on wild Western locations that are threatened by oil and gas development:
- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
- Badger-Two Medicine, Montana
- Desolation Canyon, Utah
- Thompson Divide, Colorado
- Bears Ears, Utah
- Grand Junction, Colorado
Addendum to the original report, updating progress on protecting these landscapes, is available.
Science-Based Conservation for America’s Wild Places
- Wild corridors will help wildlife adapt in an era of climate change – Study from PLOS One
- A Noah’s Ark for America’s at-risk ecosystems and their inhabitants – Summary
Managing and Funding Wildfires
- Understanding our forests and wildfire – link to short video with Travis Belote, PhD.
- Wildfire poses challenges for public lands: key policy issues
- Five big myths about wildfire
Getting Youth into the Great Outdoors
- Every Kid in a Park program: Free admission to public lands - link to statement
Media Contacts at The Wilderness Society, for information about topics, experts, photographs and infographics
Jul 12, 2016
WASHINGTON, DC
Caption:
Badger-Two Medicine region of Montana.
Credit:
Tony Bynum
